Edition — · Lecture Series
Learn the craft behind the rooms.
A programmed season of live Zoom sessions and recorded masterclasses from quilt makers, teachers and interior designers — the same thinking our judges use on the show floor, taught in an hour you can actually apply.
Live Zoom sessions, small focused groups, and a 14-day replay for every paid seat.
Join 348 quilters waiting for first access to confirmed sessions and seats.
What this series is
Lectures about quilt design — not step-by-step classes.
There are thousands of places to learn how to cut a half-square triangle. This series is for the other half of the craft: why a quilt works in a room, how a palette holds together across six feet of cloth, how scale, contrast and negative space decide whether a design reads from across the floor.
Every session is an hour of design thinking from someone who does it for a living — composition, colour, proportion, editing, and the judgement calls that separate a competent quilt from one that stops a room. You bring the technique. We bring the eye.
Yes — we programme this
- Colour theory and palette building for cloth
- Composition, scale and negative space
- Designing a quilt for a specific room or client
- Reading an interior brief and answering it
- Editing: what to cut before you piece it
- Photographing and presenting finished work
- Pricing, commissions and working with designers
Not this
- Beginner sew-alongs and block-of-the-month
- Follow-my-pattern project classes
- Machine or software how-to walkthroughs
- Anything that ends with "and now yours looks like mine"
Technique gets referenced when it serves a design point — it is never the reason for the session.
Taught by working makers
Every educator is vetted by the programming desk — credentials, sample teaching video and outline reviewed before a session is scheduled.
Built around the brief
Sessions run alongside the show, so what you learn maps directly onto the room briefs, the score card and the way entries get judged.
Miss it and you're covered
Life happens. Your seat holds the recording for 14 days after the live date, viewable once, on your schedule.
The programme
Sessions this edition
The 2027 programme is taking shape.
Sessions appear here once the programming desk has reviewed and scheduled them. Join the waitlist for first notice of confirmed lectures and seat releases. If you teach, proposals are open.
Join the lecture waitlistRevealed at the Virtual Launch
The full 2027 programme lands on November 11.
November 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM EST, the night we open the series to the public — every session, every educator and the seat prices together. Seats themselves go on sale in January.
Join the lecture waitlistHow it works
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Join the waitlist
Get first notice when the programme is announced and seats become available.
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Reserve your seat
Sign in and claim a place — you'll get the Zoom details by email.
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Show up live
Bring questions. Sessions are built for conversation, not lecture-only.
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Rewatch within 14 days
The recording opens to paid attendees for one viewing each.
The lecture waitlist
First notice when sessions are confirmed.
Live Zoom sessions, small focused groups, and a 14-day replay for every paid seat. We'll email you when the programme is announced and again when seats are released.
Join 142 others who are waiting.
Take it further
See where the lessons land.
Every session is built around the same briefs entrants work from and the same floor their finished quilts hang on.
For educators
Name your fee. Get it guaranteed — or 40%, whichever is greater.
You price the ticket, we fill the room. Forty per cent of every seat sold goes straight to you by PayPal — the same terms for guest educators and show judges alike. Host on your own Zoom or use ours; the desk reviews every proposal and either schedules it or sends notes back for a revision — no silence, no guesswork.
- Your guaranteed fee, or 40% of every ticket — whichever pays you more, tracked live in your speaker portal
- We handle marketing, checkout, Zoom, replays and refunds
- Your name and bio in front of every entrant, judge and buyer following the show
- 14-day replay sales keep earning after the live night
Submissions close November 1, 2026.
40%
of every ticket you sell, paid to you